The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-03-15
PERSONAL

Vanderbilts 81 100000 pleasure yacht.
The mother Of Gen Boulanger, the French
minister of war, was an Engliso woman.
Crocker. the California nabob, has three
sons and daughter TO inherit his 4O,OOo,OoO.
Charles Farwell, senator-elect from Hi
nois. resembles Garfield in feature to strik-
ing degree
Rev. Sylvanus Stall and a party Of ten
clergymen will start on bicycle tour through
Norway and Sweden June !.
William b. Allison, James G.. Blaine and
James A. Garfield were sworn into congress
on the same day, December Z, 1868.
Abraham Wolf, who died recently at Karls-
burg, in Pennsylvania, at the age of III years,
is said TO have been the oldest inhabitant OF
Austria
Adolphe dc Rothschild's family is the only
one of the RothSchilds not in mourning for
the Baroness James, as the relationship was
only that Of second cousins.
James Crowther, of Perry township, Pa &,
celebrated his Tooth birthday last week. lie IS
| in the best of health, and daily insists on per
| forming light work on the farm.
Senator Ingalls, is one Of tho best dressed
/ men in Washington He is about feet tall,
| and. allowing one foot for his head he eX-
| bibiis five feet of well clothed and Numbered
/ humanity.
Emperor Williams dancing days are over.
! The good old potentate could not open the
court ball in Berlin this year, and the first
ouadrile was danced 10y proxy, hut not OF
the Anarchist pattern.
Jesse j. Finley, the newly appointed
United States senator from Florida, in place
of the absent one Jones, was born in lol2,
and commanded company Of volunteers
during the Seminole war in 1896 and 1881
A gentleman who wanted to consult the poet
Tennvson about some literary work wrote
twenty letters before he received reply.
When the answer came it tersely stated
Dear Sir-It is "a fact, alas, but no fancy,
that half my letters are unopened
Mr.. Thomas A. Edison and family are
among the distinguished guests at Palatka
/ Fla. IT is said that sCme of the timid board
ers moved their beds into the middle Of the
floor on the night of the famous electrician
arrival, they were so sure something would
happen.
Potter Palmer the famous tavern keeper OF
/ Chicago. is the brother-in-law of Col Fred
Grant. and is not worth less than S5,OOO,O0O
His residence is the fine in the west, castle
ON the lake shore drive. He has been heavily
in debt since the fire, but IS now on sound
ground again.
IL sounds funny, but the name of the ne"
consul TO Mexico, Missouri gentleman, L
Elizabeth Caroline More He was named
for his two grandmotbers. His grandfather
seem Ia have been neglected San Francisco
Alta 1t is funny, especially as the gentle
mans name is Elanson c. More
A document was found in Washington city
the other day bearing the signatures "Jame
G. Blaine. recorder of deeds" The hand
yriting was that Of Frederick Douglass a
this time recorder of deeds, and it IS suppose
that Mr.. Blaine must have been prominen
subject of Mr.. Douglass thoughts.
Gen. Beale, of Washington, is one OF tn
largest landed proprietors III the Umte'
States. His cattle ranch, Tcjou, embrace
25OOO0 acres, eighty miles north OF Los An
geles. Cal. upon which are 10000 head
cattle and horses He has farm Of severa
hundred acres eight miles from Washington
where he has a stud of bloodcd stock He ais
possesses a large estate in Chester, Pa
Mai. W. W. Armstrong, Of The CONNER
cial will be the sixth editorial postmaster II
the city of Cleveland. The first was BenJa
min Andrews, Of The Commercial lntelli
ceucer. in 1912. The second was t. b
Spencer, of The Advertiser, IN lo45. NumDe
, three was J. W. Gray, of The Plaindealer, Il
[ 1879 Number four was Edwin Cowles, o
The Leader. in 1861, and the fifth was his sue
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